MODERN SPEY FISHING: A COMPLETE GUIDE TO TACTICS AND TECHNIQUES FOR SINGLE- AND TWO-HANDED APPROACHES. By Rick Kustich.

2023 1st edition. 4to (219 x 286mm). Ppxvi,200. Colour photographs throughout, b/w photograph, colour plates of flies by Nick Pionessa. Laminated boards, issued without a dust-wrapper.

This book "is a complete guide to contemporary Spey casting and fishing techniques made possible through current advancements in equipment and fly designs. The book [explores] a wider scope of species including inland trout, smallmouth bass, and even saltwater game fish. It thoroughly covers ...today's Spey lines and heads [and discusses] various presentation techniques for both two-handed and single-handed approaches." Chapters include: Historical perspective; Rods, reels and lines; Spey Casting - setting up for the cast, controlling running line, the basic casts, making adjustments, single-handed Spey; Presenting the fly - depth, speed, sinking-tip control, swinging and waking dry flies, the swing approach, finding water; Tactical Spey fishing - non-typical holding areas, tactical casting, dead drift, setting the hook, landing the fish; Specific strategies - steelhead, Atlantic salmon, Pacific salmon, migratory trout and charr, smallmouth bass, other species, other applications; Trout Spey - streamers and baitfish patterns, swinging wet and dry flies, swinging big flies on the surface, dead drifting dry flies; Flies; Concluding thoughts.